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Sixty-Year Saga (1952–2013) of the Solid-State Structure of Triiron Dodecacarbonyl

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This article presents the personal saga of one of the authors (LFD) in the determination of the solid-state structure of Fe3(CO)12. We also present the results of our recent determination of its solid-state structure at low temperature (100 K), in which we have used a modern area-detector diffractometer in order to examine more precisely its temperature-dependent structural variations reported by Braga et al. in 1994 from a point-detector diffractometer. These investigations provide a striking illustration of the remarkable advances over the last six decades in both computational hardware and software packages as well as the recent improvements in hardware data-collection instrumentation that have given rise to X-ray crystallography now being the most powerful (and in most cases the only unambiguous) physical method for elucidating the static structures of complex metal clusters. Other experimental measurements and resulting speculations concerning the dynamic/fluxional behavior of Fe3(CO)12 and closely related analogues in the solid state and in solution are briefly mentioned, as are recent theoretical analyses.

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Acknowledgments

We are pleased to acknowledge partial financial support of this research from the UW-Madison Graduate School and Chemistry Department. We are grateful to Professors John Berry (Chem. Dept.; UW-Madison) and June Dahl (Dept. of Neuroscience; UW School of Medicine & Public Health) for helpful suggestions and to Professor Boon Teo (Chem. Dept.; Univ. of Illinois at Chicago) for all of his support. LFD is especially happy to acknowledge the overall presence of a normally unrecognized collaborator—namely, the Goddess Fortuna, who has played an extremely important role during his entire academic career in Transition Metal Cluster Chemistry. His advice, especially to former co-workers, is the following: “whenever your research is going particularly well (i.e., corresponding to the presence of Fortuna in the laboratory), you should work hard both day and night; however, when research is not going well (i.e., when she is absent from the lab), the best possible solution is to take a short vacation with the hope that she will then return to the lab upon your resumption of work.”

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    Charles F. Campana

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    Ilia A. Guzei, Evgueni G. Mednikov & Lawrence F. Dahl

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Campana, C.F., Guzei, I.A., Mednikov, E.G. et al. Sixty-Year Saga (1952–2013) of the Solid-State Structure of Triiron Dodecacarbonyl. J Clust Sci 25, 205–224 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-013-0667-z

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